AGARTALA, August 16 (TIWN): Trinamool Congress wouldn’t be able to flourish ever in Tripura, former senior leader of Tripura Pradesh Trinamool Congress and the party’s ex-state media cell chief Krishnadhan Nath said here today after joining hands with Congress at the Pradesh Congress Bhawan at Agartala this afternoon.

Speaking to the media in the sidelines of a press conference here this afternoon, Nath said that he had joined the party six years back to raise a true anti-left force. “I found that the leaders of the party are busier in getting their own coffers filled rather than meeting the needs of the party”, he said. Former Congress leader Tapan Dutta who joined the TMC a year back, today re-joined Congress and said that the Trinamool Congress had no future in the state.

 “I, like many others, joined TMC with the hope that the party would form a true anti-left force in the state in the lines of West Bengal. We have found that the leaders are oblivious of the needs of common people”, he said.

Dutta said quoting a conversation with TMC leader and West Bengal MLA Sabyasachi Dutta that the latter had happily bid him adieu from Trinamool Congress. Sabyasachi Dutta told him that Tripura TMC leaders wouldn’t ever succeed to oust the ruling CPI (M) from power, he claimed.

Leader of the opposition and former PCC president Sudip Roy Barman today sought apology from all Congress leaders and supporters for ‘any mistake that might have pained them’ and urged all to come back to the party to form an unified struggle against the left parties. He urged all party leaders and supporters who joined Trinamool Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or the CPI (M) in the past few months to re-join the party.

PCC general secretary and current head of the Tripura royal family Maharaj Pradyot Bikram Kishore Manikya Debbarma  recently said that he would appeal all anti-left forces to join hands with Congress and form one broad anti-left platform under the party ahead of the coming ADC election.